San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-02-19
LATEST TELEGRAPH NEWS
From all Parts OF the Globe, Con-
deutschland Boiled Down

Austria and Russia grow much more
friendly In their mutual relations.
Workmen are erecting the water
works stsndpipe at Seguin.
The county Offices at Roseville. Ark,
robbed Of $50, 900. mostly school funds.
The Scotch miners will continue to
strike until their demands are granted.
West Texas kicks like one Of her own
longhorns against the unnecessary veto
of the relief bill.
The men charged with the Texas and
Pacific express robbery are out at Dallas
on $3.50 bail each.
John Cole, Fort Worth and Denver
train robber, is held In $4,000 bond; bond
furnished.
Seventy arrests have already been
made of persons implicated 10 fraudu-
lent voting In st. Louis last November
Seventy members Of the Jersey legis-
lature are paired until Tuesday. Dead
lock is dead set.
The executive committee OF the Gen.
trail Traffic association will revise rates
to conform to Interstate commerce law.
The German reichstag will be dis
solved II the government Is In the min
GRITTY after election.
Postoff1ce committee Of house accept
oil amendments OF senate save subsidy for
foreign mails and will so report.
Greenbackers do not favor the labor
convention call at Cincinnati next Tues
day.
Red Star shoe store, Greenville, fired
by incendiaries. Loss $4,000. Safe
blown open and robbed.
Earthquake at Frederickstown. Mo-,
shakes furniture W. lively, and rattles
plastering.
Free mail delivery at El Paso is re-
commended by Inspector McGhee
Williams.
Germany thinks Russia is only wait
ing for war In Western Europe to wreck
vengeance on Bulgaria.
The pope protests that he does not
wish to injure Italy, but the position Of
the Pontiff must be settled.
Swiss government siezes nihilist
printing Office, at Geneva, and secures
type and pamphlets.
Irish prisoners will not be released on
the occasion Of the queens jubilee.
Only India felOns.
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pledge from France to remain neutral
In case Of war in Eastern Europe.
Russia says in case Of war between
France and Germany she will remain
neutral.
Ex-Empress Eugene asks the post Of
hospital nurse for the wounded Italian
soldiers returning from the MassOw ali
campaign.
A st. Louis repeater connected with
the voting fraud there last Novem-
Der, has been arrested In Chicago and
confesses.
Mary Ballman, a st. Louis domestic,
having been detected stealing money
from her employer, hung herself for
shame.
The bondsmen Of defauIting treasurer
|. U. U. f. Jordan will have a conference
Monday. Till then nothing will be
known.
Government orders the mounting and
manning OF the Shannon forts to intimi-
date the Irish In Clare and Limerick
counties
Kraus & Co, Milwaukee masters
were wired from New York, to bid on
furnishing 200, 900 bushels of oats for the
German government; bid was sent.
The ice gorge at Lyons, Mich. is i'm
movable, the rain is falling heavily, river
rising and the people, more than dir
couraged, are leaving their homes.
The Shaun from New Orleans to
Havre, with 1924 bales of cotton, is
ashore go miles southwest Of Cedar Keys,
Gulf of Mexico.
Texas Pacific will connect with Mexi-
can Central In FL Paso, and handle
freight there II FL Paso council will
give right Of way to the proposed depot
site.
The record OF new industries-manu-
featuring, mining and railroading, be-
gun at the south this year already
reaches into several millions.
Passenger agents conclude that under
the Interstate law they cannot sell 1000
mile tickets to business houses alone,
but must sell to every one or no one.
Bre6ham Methodists (German) are
raising an endowment for a college
which Mr.. Blinn, Of New York, will
build them, conditioned upon their en-
dowment of 1t.
General Sheridan was before the house
committee while considering the ques-
ton Of coast defences. He said, guns
first and then take up the question Of
Notifications.
Tarrant county, which, according to
the papers, has enjoyed the greatest
boom Of any location In Texas wants re-
lief from taxes. What says the Sort"
to the proposition.
Horrible reports come from Idian of
the nameless torture inflicted upon sub
ordinate princes by King Tofa, Porte
Navo, India.
A flash Of lightning fired cotton
warehouse at Tompkinsville, Staten
Island, and 10000 bales were burned.
Loss $780, 600; insured.
The Mississippi river at Memphis is
four inches above the danger line and
within Is inches Of extreme high water
mark. Levees are all right, but trouble
Ia feared on the line Of the Memphis and
Little Rock II water rises any higher.
House passes bill prohibiting gift, sale
or loan OF deadly weapons to minors;
also, allowing penitentiary chaplains
5000 salary: also, compelling railroads
to pay all damages where they refuse to
transport freight and passengers; also,
Furnishing the teaching and practice Of
polygamous practices In this state.
Russian advices are to the effect that
at the capital war is considered inevi-
table between France and Germany.
That Russia, while remaining neutral,
will see that France In case of defeat, is
not crippled too seriously, or so as to en-
danger the peace Of Europe by an over
weening strength on the part Of Ger
many.